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A Columbus bank robber turned bodybuilder is now facing robbery and kidnapping charges after
police said he robbed a Far North Side BMV and a Wendy’s this month.

Miguel Neil, 41, was indicted by a Franklin County grand jury last week on four counts of
robbery and six counts of kidnapping. He is being held at the Franklin County jail.

Neil, of 5584 Crawford Dr. on the North Side, was released from federal prison in 2005 after
serving time for a Columbus bank robbery. Just two years later, he was the men’s overall champion
at the Arnold Classic’s amateur bodybuilding competition.

Last year, he took first place in the men’s light heavyweight division at the NPC National
Championships.

Neil’s lawyer, Dennis W. McNamara, said his client has been working as a personal trainer. He
said he wasn’t sure what kind of personal or financial circumstances Neil was in at the time of his
arrest.

Neil was under police surveillance when he was arrested on Nov. 15. Police said he robbed an
Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles agency at 112 Dillmont Dr. on the Far North Side.

Neil ran from police and was struck by an officer’s car and shot at before he ran into a
dance studio filled with children, police said. Police shot him with a Taser and took him into
custody.

Police said Neil was a suspect in dozens of other robberies, but an indictment names just one
other robbery on Nov. 8 at a Wendy’s on Worthington Woods Boulevard on the Far North Side.